BIO: Edward A. FRITCHEY, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 41.
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EDWARD A. FRITCHEY, of the firm of Fritchey Bros., proprietors of the 
Huntingdon Planing Mill, was born in Tatesville, Bedford county, July 4, 
1862, a son of E. C. and Adolphina (Richter) Fritchey. The family of Mr. and 
Mrs. E. C. Fritchey included eleven children. Five of these, Charles C., 
Julius, Anna, David and Richard R., are deceased. The surviving children are: 
Frank, Samuel B., born in Bedford county April 29, 1859, educated in the 
Huntingdon public schools, was engaged in farming in Huntingdon county, but 
now resides in Los Angeles, Cal., where he is a carpenter; Edward A.; Charles 
C.; William H.; and Mary Jane, wife of Andrew Heffner, of Smithfield 
township, Huntingdon county. 
  Edward A. Fritchey, after receiving his education in the common schools of 
Butler county, Pa., learned carpentry and building in Huntingdon. He was 
employed at this trade by the Huntingdon and Broad Top R.R. Co. until 1889; 
for two years longer he served the same company as fireman; in 1891 he 
engaged with has brothers in their present enterprise. Mr. Fritchey is a 
member of Washington Camp, P.O.S. of A., and of the Royal Arcanum. His 
political views are Republican. 
  Edward A. Fritchey was married in Huntingdon in 1887 to Louisa Geneva, 
daughter of Jacob and Mary Sharrer. Of their five children, one, Adolphina, 
died in childhood; the others are: Edward Jackson; Maggie Rosie; David Black; 
and George Washington Barrick. Mr. Fritchey attends the Lutheran church.